New cars built in Europe are likely to become £1,500 more expensive on average for UK customers next year due to 10% post-Brexit import tariffs Department for International Trade today announced its post-Brexit tariff regime The UK is set to default to World Trade Organisation terms on 1 January 2021 This means European-built cars imported … Read more
Reopening schools across Europe has not caused a spike in coronavirus cases. Evidence from 22 EU states that have restored classes suggests little or no risk to pupils, teachers or families. The revelation piles pressure on unions resisting plans to send younger children back from June 1. The National Education Union yesterday even claimed it … Read more
Spain is planning to welcome tourists – including Britons – back in ‘late June’, a government minister said today after Italy announced that its borders would re-open on June 3. Transport minister Jose Luis Abalos said the current two-week quarantine for foreign visitors would be phased out when travel restrictions are lifted within Spain. ‘From late … Read more
Britain’s plan to exempt France from 14-day travel quarantine must be applied to EVERY EU member state, the European Commission warns On Sunday the UK agreed that French travellers to UK would not face quarantine Every other member of the EU must quarantine for two weeks upon arrival in UK European Commission says UK must … Read more
The European flag quiz that only 10% of Britons could score full marks on (with millennials performing worst) – see how many YOU can match to the correct country Generation Z (18-25) performed the best, with an average of 12 out of 15 Baby boomers scored 10 out of 15 on average, and Generation X … Read more
French athletes believe they caught coronavirus at the World Military Games in Wuhan in October, 20 days before the first recorded case in China. It comes after it was revealed that Frenchman Amirouche Hammar, 43, had been infected with COVID-19 outside Paris as early as December. The hospital where Hammar was treated for chest pains … Read more
European leaders have pledged to raise billions of pounds to help find a vaccine and treatments for Covid-19 as part of an ‘international alliance’ fighting the disease. An online pledging conference due to be held on Monday will aim to pull in 7.5billion euro (£6.6billion) in funding to support the global response to the coronavirus … Read more
European travel chiefs are calling for the creation of ‘tourism corridors’ so holiday resorts can re-open in time for summer. Ministers from nine countries, including France, Italy, Greece and Spain, wrote to European Union chiefs on Tuesday warning the industry faces collapse if special measures are not rolled out soon. Ideas under discussion include an EU-wide … Read more
Budget airline Wizz Air has become the first to restore flights from London to Europe, with planes scheduled to take off as early as next week. Flights will be leaving London Luton for Tenerife, Lisbon, Budapest and other major cities from May 1. Seats are priced from £16.99. The continent-wide coronavirus lockdown has seen European air … Read more
2020 OLYMPIC GAMES The 2020 Olympic Games has been postponed until 2021 on March 24 – becoming one of the last major sporting events this summer to fall victim to the coronavirus. Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe held a crucial conference call with Olympics chief Thomas Bach on Tuesday to formally decide a plan and … Read more